FIBS
Fibs are the building blocks of Fictitious Books. Fibs are written into every page. They are the deceitful words at the heart of all Fictitious stories: fibs creative online fiction.
Fibs fictions are disguised in a variety of forms:
The ten authors creating these imaginary fibs are elusive and difficult to pin down. They have created their own original cover stories. The names of these phantom authors are as fictitious as the books that they write:
Scarlett Moonstone • Naomi Quicke
Sienna Roxlade • Michael Scriven
Marec Slivenich • Isobel Vellacott
FIBS PUBLICATIONS
A Fictitious play in two acts – experience a triangular drama in a penthouse suite in London: at midnight only one of three people can inherit a four billion pound fortune. Who will it be? Francis Maynard-Oakshotte, Ingrid Lindstrom or Stella Bowers?
Downward Spirals by George Ithaka
Daniel Harte, a social science student at the LSE, had from an early age been fascinated by tales of revolutionary violence. So, he didn’t have a moment’s hesitation in accepting the invitation of his best friend Andre Rivette to join him in Paris in May 1968 to witness at first hand the nascent student uprising. What happened in Paris, however, proved to be more complicated and disturbing than the revolutionary scenarios that he had studied in books. Downward Spirals is a tale of rebellion, love, kidnapping, ransom and imagination.
Magical Miranda by Scarlett Moonstone
In a series of fourteen short stories about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, Scarlett Moonstone explores the dilemmas of everyday living in the contemporary world – Magical Miranda, a Fictitious Books fibs collection of magical tales.
Magical Miranda • Aquatic Sky • Splash • Eurostar Kiss • Lightning Drop • Alternative World • Oscar’s Lament • Six Days • The Camden Strangler Valentine • After the Flood • Wildcat • Millennium Yesterdays • Forgetting Zoe
Counterfeit by Michael Scriven
Paul Chandler had thought that being a newspaper reporter would make his life more interesting. And it did. But not in the way he’d expected. Unwittingly involved in a murder and an international counterfeiting operation, he and his best friend Joe, a freelance photographer, soon realise that their lives are in imminent danger as they are drawn relentlessly into an escalating criminal conspiracy that coincides with the outbreak of the Second World War. Counterfeit is a novel of love, friendship, deception, loss, survival and deliverance that begins on a tranquil beach in Sussex in August 1939 and ends amidst the destruction and carnage of the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940.
Monsters of Narratokia by Isobel Vellacott
Explore the fantasy world of Isobel Vellacott’s Monsters of Narratokia. Travel with Calypso to Narratokia and experience close up the Isle of Quintaine, the Teeming Ocean on the Moon of Aquatico, the sea of Circularity, the Moon of Troppea, Slitherene Marshes, Stink Hole Caves, the City of Mindloss and the Plains of Dissimulation. Join Calypso on her journeys to Narratokia as she attempts to rescue King Benevol from imprisonment and restore him to his throne. Witness at first hand her struggles to defeat the fire-breathing Rhinotaur, the monstrous Tentaculopod, the awe-inspiring Croculosaurus, the demonic Watchdog, Rottsnarler, and Terrox the Terrible who rules Narratrokia with an iron fist from the Temple of the God Cyclon..
Short Fibs by Michael Scriven
A fictitious assortment of microfiction, flash fiction and short short stories. Each `story’ is designed to encourage the reader to speculate on a variety of imaginative possibilities.
Daylight Robbery • Mobile Escape • The Sicilian Alternative • Egg • Exploding Love • False Dialogue • Special Day • Plague • Jigsaw Julie • Punch Line Flash • Labels • Two-Faced • 13 Black • Watershed • Ludovic • Murder Mystery
Anticlockwise Journal by Zeb Solitanu
Anticlockwise Journal offers a chilling portrait of life in Globopolis, the capital city of the Anticlockwise Empire. The journal was discovered in the secret files of the Globopolis police department. It records the daily life of a citizen called Zeb Solitanu who had been under surveillance by the authorities for several years. Citizen Solitanu was suspected of harbouring and disseminating subversive ideas. Discover a dystopia of fear, nightmares, surveillance, isolation and despair.
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FIBS BLOG POSTS
Fibs blog post are grouped into 5 categories:
Blog Fiction: Fictitious Posts and Imaginary Stories
Freedom Surrendered: Sleepwalking into an Anticlock Disaster
Open Civil War: Young against Old, Rich against Poor, North against South
Friends and Enemies: Clancy, Tia, Max and Olaf Kaminski
The Great Wall: Countering SafrAntic Terrorism
Max Destino-Coin: Cuban Cigars and an Invitation to Subversion
Coloured Targets: Black, Brown and Yellow Illuminations
Passports and Visas: No Travel Beyond Anticlockwise
Tagging Deviants Electronic Control – Paranoia, Fear and Suspicion
Dialogue of the Deaf: Sign Language in a Surveillance Culture
The Cosmic Scandal: Safrons, Neblings, Farawis and Antics
Feast to Famine; The Lean, Hungry and Dangerous Look
Time To Suffer, Time To Die – Killer Ball The Ultimate Sacrifice
The Safrox Plague: Unleashing a Deadly Virus against the `Undesirables’
Waxwork Idols: Who’s Afraid of General Terrevotox?
Heart Attack: The Excruciating Pain of Dying before Your Time
The Spider State: Surviving in a Tangled Web of Oppression
Checkmate versus Chequered Flags: Independence Illusions in Estrellaxia
`One Two Three Bang!’ Dicing with Death on Danger Walk Turboplex
Spirian Altra: The Future Foretold
Lightning Link: Communicating with Outer Neblusians
Orphans and Exiled Families: Divided Anticlock and Safronikan Identities
Unidentified Flying Object: Gigantic Fireball above Infinity Gateway
Exile in Isolium: Banishment to the Faraway Galaxy
Berriana’s Story: An Illegal Immigrant on Outer Neblus
Life Extinction: Crime and Punishment on Terranona
You Only Die Twice: Epitaph to a Friend – Dying and Remembering
Governments Tricksters Demagogues: The Rise and Fall of Dethko
Long-Eyed Lasers: War, Robotic Engineering and Crime
Written in the Stars: Astrology, Horoscopes and Unexpected Events
The Disorganised Daydreamer: Financial Disaster and Eli Lately
The Condemned of Extoxia: The Dehumanisation of Sonderlyne
Purple Pointed Hats: Images of Oppression and Conformity
Monsters and Monstrous Thoughts: Narratok and Anticlock Nightmares
Snowflakes in Fire: The Unbearably Bitter Tears of Reality
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